Bradley A. Scott
04-15-2010, 10:15 AM
I'm starting this thread to provide a space for any information people might have about the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico during the period when it was backed and controlled by the Frisco (ca. 1903-1913). This railroad between Houston and Brownsville, TX, was part of Frisco and Rock Island president B.F. Yoakum's expansive plans to funnel traffic from Mexico to the midwestern US. The Frisco lost control of the line ca. 1913 in the financial collapse of Yoakum's empire, and it later became the MoPac's Gulf Coast Lines.
So far the best source I've found is a graduate thesis by James Krug, titled "Benjamin Franklin Yoakum and the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad", which was completed in 1999 at Texas A&M University at Kingsville and can be requested through academic libraries.
I'll kick off things by posting a photo I took yesterday when UP 844 came through Kingsville, TX on a corporate publicity tour. As you can see, the nicely preserved Kingsville depot acknowledges the Frisco among the railroads that once served the town. (Full photo set at Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/49301015@N05/sets/72157623730933569/).)
So far the best source I've found is a graduate thesis by James Krug, titled "Benjamin Franklin Yoakum and the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad", which was completed in 1999 at Texas A&M University at Kingsville and can be requested through academic libraries.
I'll kick off things by posting a photo I took yesterday when UP 844 came through Kingsville, TX on a corporate publicity tour. As you can see, the nicely preserved Kingsville depot acknowledges the Frisco among the railroads that once served the town. (Full photo set at Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/49301015@N05/sets/72157623730933569/).)